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> Vehicle manufacturing isn't related to Amazon's business. This is a somewhat funny thing to say about a company whose "business" has gradually come to includ
by BHSPitMonkey 3y ago
> Vehicle manufacturing isn't related to Amazon's business.
This is a somewhat funny thing to say about a company whose "business" has gradually come to include: B2C e-commerce, B2B e-commerce platforms, web hosting (AWS), brick and mortar grocery store chains (Whole Foods and Fresh/Go), pharmaceuticals, healthcare (One Medical), Twitch, streaming video games (Luna), film and television production (in-house and through its acquisition of MGM), consumer electronics (Kindle, Alexa, Fire), home security (Ring), robotics, and satellites (Kuiper).
How many of these were "related" to Amazon's business, which, as we all know, is selling books through the mail?
- danans 3y agoNearly everything business you listed is about selling a high volume of products and services with relatively low marginal cost of production or distribution. That's true for food, books, movies, and compute. The robots are clearly related to warehouse automation. Amazon sells very few things that cost as much as a car, and when they do, they don't manufacture them, because each transaction carries a lot of risk and overhead. That's not to say they'd never acquire them, but the lack of business alignment makes it seem less likely.
- jfghi 3y agoAnd of course fintech https://www.forbes.com/sites/moorinsights/2021/04/30/is-amazon-building-the-next-generation-bank/?sh=61fa93417ddd https://www.forbes.com/sites/moorinsights/2021/04/30/is-amaz...